Still On Her Mind

the intro and ending, and some parts in between are actually guitars. It's a trick that I play around with when I'm goofing around. Plus, I totally effected them as well. I could of easily done it with synths. But this was more fun.

A bulk of the lyrics I actually wrote 15 to 20 years ago and finally had a song for them.

The song itself has been sitting around for a while. To much snow has been falling and seems I have spent every evening digging out. Well, I finally got a break from snow this weekend and was finally able to record the vocals.

the sun rises on the sleepy little town
she gets up slowly moving around
she gets ready to start the day
gets cleaned up putting things away
she can no longer delay
out the door and to the corner
to catch a bus to take her away

chorus:
the dream of the man
still on her mind
to take her away

staring out the window of the bus
draws a happy face in a layer of dust
she's daydreaming of the man far away
in the window she sees the reflection of her face
she dreams away
she studies the reflection of her face
always made up just in case

chorus:
she dream of the man
still on her mind
to take her away

lunch break from work she sees the man
this was not something according to plan
she sits there and wonders to herself
i could go over and kiss that man
she makes her move
the two of them walk away
now she wonders if it's only today

There's so much I love about this tune, not sure where to start. The beginning works so many times, I think I'll start there... Interesting how the bass line just kinda wanders in before it gets into it's groove. Very cool atmospheric fog. The hand claps are the best. Solid clapping performance. One of your best. I also am quite impressed with those choppy little guitar parts on either side of my headphones. This is a fine arrangement.

I can't forget to mention your vocals are great and your drums keep getting better and better. Unbelievable.

Hey Bob
Originally the clap (hand claps) was unintentional, but i thought it sounded okay and kept it.
I wanted the bass to be the main factor for most of it. So, I actually recorded that first.
There are those wild drums in parts especially during the solos that i wanted to go beyond keeping it simple. Just hearing them by themselves is really something.

Thanks Kevin
the effect list to create those parts was nutz. infinite delays, volume pedal, ring modulators, spectral gate, a bunch of filter, and on and on. but, it is really cool to see what can happen.

Alright dude!
if this is the new aggressive 2009 Vic Holman i'm loving him. This rocks. Everything is so up in your face - drums, guitar, lyrics, bass, whole deal. Cool bass groove in the intro then the blondie funk rhythm guitar and man the vocals in the chorus just kick ass. I don't even know what those sounds are that precede the guitar solo but they're spot on perfect. Ten stars, over the top goodness. Direct to the ipod. Thanks!!

awesome
this is first off a great song (almost like one of those motown acts that got all psych in the late 60's). you could play it straight like a stones song and it would kill. that said; i love the effected approach you took. i love stuff like this. you got some really cool sounds;and you actually put them in a song instead of a meandering ambient jam (unlike me). great stuff dude. maybe the snow is good for you.

Thanks Michael
The effect stuff is something i dink around with once in a while. Those tracks are droning in A. Someday when I get motivate enough I'll build other notes to compile them together for something.

No.... snow bad!! 73"...... lucky for me it warmed up quite a bit for the last few days and has melted quite a bit of it.

YOu
can make a guitar do things . Beautiful things! Dont you just love when you have something from the past that works so well now. Great leading as always! Sorry for the delayed response been busy preparing for the inevidable

Thanks Neil
guitar sounds. well the intro, outro and some other places. i used a infinite delay and used a volume pedal to buils up a sound. that i did with my digitech GNX2 peadl board. then just added plug ins like ring modulator, spectral gate and a auto filter to the seperatley to the three tracks.

the clean guitars i set to a twin reverb amp modeling also through the digitech, i aslo added slide parts to the chorus.

usually i double track guitar parts one to each side and either change guitars or a pick up selection or EQ. pretty much everything goes in is what comes out.

Sometimes
people come into your life for a reason, but they just weren't meant to stay. You never forget them, and your life is changed forever for the better for the blessing of having known them, if only for a little while. A song comes up on the iPod while you're going about the business of your everyday life, and for a few moments, you allow yourself the luxury of happy memories.

Man
Man, this is cool. The bass really works well, driving the track along at full tilt. And those drums are right on the money (i think the handclaps work well, too). Lovely guitar work; I really like that snappy playing over the bridge - very cool. Great lyrics, and excellent vocal delivery as ever. Lovely stuff. Nicely done, man. Peace.

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